Very Good Quotes - Page 2

• No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

  Timothy West

  Thinking, Play, Reason

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• An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

  Desi Arnaz

  Drama, Vices, Actors

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Next, Best Things, Jokes

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.162

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• The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Gone, Want, Reason

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• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Lawyer, Settling, Should

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• I'm not very good at doing two things at the same time. I've never been good at the walk and bubblegum thing. I've been doing this 16 hours a day. I haven't had a day off. But it's very exciting, too, just to meet all these people doing really fertile stuff. It's sort of where I come from anyway, hanging out with people who believe in something incredible.

  Bjork

  Believe, People, Incredibles

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• Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

  Dick Brandon

  Funny, Movie, Sex

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Sauce, Laissez Faire, Poor

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Culture, Pops, Knows

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• Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

  Siobhan Davies

  Independent, Years, Choices

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• I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

  Ben Stiller

  Appreciation, Grateful, Acceptance

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• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  Martin Lel

  Champion, Fields, Strongest

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• I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

  Duane G. Carey

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Catherine Crier

  Thinking, Waiting, May

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• It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

  Robert Mayer

  People, World, Students

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• Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.

  Johnny Christ

  Horse, Cowboy, Wells

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• Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

  Diego Rivera

  Suffering, Painter, Composition

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• Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic.

  Charlie Watts

  Mean, Years, People

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• It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

  Cheri Huber

  Love, Change, Moving

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• I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder to make it work and you don't want to fall back into a pattern that you've seen happen in your own family. I desperately want it to work; I desperately love my husband and I wanted to share everything together. And I thought that we were a very good team.

  Princess Diana

  Husband, Team, Fall

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• Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

  Dean Lombardi

  Couple, Army, Criminals

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• By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

  James Galway

  Paris, Scales

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• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

  Nevil Shute

  Sports, Character, Climbing

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